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    Pizzeria Owner Calls Out NYC’s Ban on Coal- and Wood-Burning Ovens
    NEW YORK, N.Y.—New York City has set its sights on a cultural establishment that embodies an emblematic tradition in the Big Apple: pizzerias. Specifically, restaurateurs who make pizza using coal- and wood-burning ovens installed before 2016. Earlier this year, New York City announced a rule mandating that such ovens be fitted with expensive scrubbers designed…
    Philip Reynolds
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    UK’s Keen Grasp of Obvious: 2030 Mandate on Electric Vehicles Is Unachievable
    LONDON—British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after first announcing a mandate requiring all fossil-fueled vehicles sold in the U.K. after 2030 to be electric, succumbed to pressure from the Conservative Party and within his own government and announced Wednesday a delay until 2035. His goal remains net zero by 2050. Sunak’s goal continues to be based…
    Cal Thomas
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    UAW Strike Over Green Energy Agenda Threatens Liberals’ Coalition
    The big economic news at the end of last week was the start of a strike by the United Auto Workers union against all three major U.S. automakers. This is the first strike against President Joe Biden’s green agenda, pitting two parts of the traditional Democratic coalition against each other—the environmentalists against the blue-collar workers. Or…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates
    Duke Energy has thrown consumers under the proverbial (electric) bus to make their operations carbon neutral by 2050. As a result, electricity prices in North Carolina may increase by 19% over the next three years. The company’s president, Lynn Good, receives more than $20 million annually in compensation financed in part by ensuring that consumers lower…
    Miles Pollard
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    UK’s Onshore Wind Scheme Could Backfire, With Far More Potent Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Shortly after naming Claire Coutinho as secretary of state for energy security and net zero on Aug. 31, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a plan to accelerate the approval process for onshore wind projects. Previously, a 2015 ruling allowed a single complaint within a community to halt an onshore wind program and fully stopped…
    Miles Pollard
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    Joe Biden’s Knockout Punch for American Energy Independence
    Just last month, President Joe Biden took a major swipe at America’s energy independence when he declared nearly a million acres of uranium-rich land outside of Grand Canyon National Park off limits to energy development. Turns out that was just the setup jab. The knockout punch is on its way. According to reports, Biden wants…
    Jack Spencer
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    What My Experience Preventing Wildfires in Colorado Taught Me About Maui and Climate Change
    The devastating fire that ravaged the Maui community of Lahaina has claimed the lives of over 100 people, and more than 300 remain unaccounted for. Many on the Left—Hawaii’s governor included—have claimed that man-made “climate change” is ultimately responsible for the most deadly fire in a century, but I know from personal experience that factors…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Biden’s Incoherent Energy Policy Continues
    President Joe Biden says he wants a carbon-free future for the United States and acknowledges that to realize that future, nuclear energy is essential. Judging by the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of taxpayer dollars that Biden is throwing at his version of “green energy,” combined with a willingness to strangle consumer choice, his…
    Jack Spencer
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    Hawaiian Grid Operator Focused on Promoting Green Energy Instead of Wildfire Preparedness
    Hawaiian Electric, the utility company whose power line reportedly played a role in the Hawaiian fires, appears to have focused on green energy development while neglecting to adhere to its own assessment that it needed to increase the safety of its existing infrastructure, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The company concluded that it needed…
    Nick Pope
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    Deadly Hawaii Fires Are Result of Political and Policy Failures—Not Climate Change
    Hawaii has suffered through one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent American history. Predictably, the left-wing political and media narrative-making machine has sought to turn the Hawaii fires into another lesson about climate change. The facts draw a drastically different picture. The extent of the damage on the island of Maui isn’t fully…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘UNMITIGATED DISASTER’ Lawmakers Call for School Choice After Students Soil Themselves Stuck on Buses for 6 Hours
    A dozen Kentucky legislators are calling for a complete overhaul in state education after a transportation nightmare on the first day of school stranded hundreds of Louisville students on buses until almost 10 p.m. Wednesday. Relying on the controversial computer program AlphaRoute to remap already lengthy bus routes for the school district’s short-staffed bus team,…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Of the Many Factors Behind the Maui Wildfires, Climate Change Was Not One, Experts Say
    As catastrophic wildfires engulf the Hawaiian island of Maui, some media outlets and politicians quickly jumped at the opportunity to blame the disaster on the man-made phenomenon of climate change. The Associated Press distributed an article quoting Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, as saying that “climate…
    Elise McCue
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    How That ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change Was ‘Manufactured’
    We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.” She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change….
    John Stossel
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    Oil Innovator Notes Importance of Energy Independence to National Security
    Harold Hamm, a pioneer in the oil and gas industry, notes the importance of energy independence to national security, especially as it relates to China and Russia.  “It should be obvious now with this last example how important our national security is, and energy independence gives us that, and we can’t fritter that away,” Hamm…
    Fred Lucas
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    Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Has Speech Canceled After Saying ‘Climate Change Is Not a Crisis’
    The International Monetary Fund canceled a talk with physicist John Clauser after he said, “Climate change is not a crisis.”   The IMF had invited Clauser, the recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics, to deliver a Webex speech on July 25. Five days before the event, Clauser was informed his speech had been “postponed.” The…
    Virginia Allen
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    Hot Weather Does Not Mean Climate Change
    As Ambassador Rahm Emanuel once said as chief of staff to President Barack Obama, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Hillary Clinton is taking this to heart, using summer temperatures to justify Democrats’ profligate spending on green energy in the Inflation Reduction Act. No matter that hot summer days in cities…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Electric Vehicles: Costly Virtue Signaling Forced on America by Left
    The Left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient, but more expensive, doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation. Even the purported amenities and technological advances EV makers like to brag about in their ads have been a regular feature of gas-powered…
    David Harsanyi
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    How Proposed EPA Electric Vehicle Rule Would Compromise Auto Safety
    A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that “would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030” would adversely affect the safety of cars. So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. (The Daily…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    ‘Good Guy With Gun’ Swept Under Rug by Las Vegas Police
    A good guy with a gun apparently stopped an active shooter in Las Vegas on Friday, almost certainly saving lives after a helmeted man opened fire with a rifle in a building lobby. But you probably didn’t hear about it. Why not? Normally, this type of defensive gun use would garner significant media attention and…
    Amy Swearer | Pierce Sandlin
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    Good Guy With a Gun? Las Vegas Police Secretive About Shooting at High Rise
    Las Vegas police are withholding details about what looks like a classic “good guy with a gun” scenario in which someone carrying a firearm prevents what could have turned into a mass shooting.  The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department won’t identify anyone involved in an incident Friday in which a helmet-wearing man with what appeared…
    Fred Lucas
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